 January 3 - Some Legislative Loose Ends Enough for Confident GOP |
| January 17 - 'Case of the Missing Revenue' Is Nation's Troubling Mystery |
| January 17 - Business Newly Tolerant Of 'Manageable' Deficit |
| January 17 - Defense: A Deficit Driver |
| January 17 - Despite Cost Overruns, V-22 Osprey Program Survives |
| January 17 - Elusive Goal: Staying at 'Zero' |
| January 17 - Fix the Deficit, Pay the Price |
| January 17 - How Much Debt Is Too Much? |
| January 17 - How States Rank in Per-Capita Federal Aid |
| January 17 - Lawmakers Call for Cuts, But Not in Their Programs |
| January 17 - Profile: Alan Greenspan |
| January 17 - Profile: Bill Thomas |
| January 17 - Profile: David R. Obey |
| January 17 - Profile: Douglas J. Holtz-Eakin |
| January 17 - Profile: G. William Hoagland |
| January 17 - Profile: John B. Breaux |
| January 17 - Profile: John W. Snow |
| January 17 - Profile: Joshua B. Bolten |
| January 17 - Profile: Olympia J. Snowe |
| January 17 - Profile: Robert E. Rubin |
| January 17 - Profile: Ted Stevens |
| January 17 - Putting Off the Pain |
| January 17 - States Brace for More Cuts |
| January 17 - Take a Number, Join the Fray |
| January 17 - The GOP's Internal Divide |
| January 17 - With Half-Trillion in Red Ink, U.S. Inc. Looks Bad on Paper |
| January 31 - Editor's Notebook: Piercing the Fog |
| January 31 - Tax Cuts, Spending Limits Divide Deficit-Conscious Republicans |
| February 7 - A Budget Glossary |
| February 7 - A New Tax Cut Equation |
| February 7 - A Series of Hurdles to Jump For Those Seeking Funding |
| February 7 - Budget Timetable |
| February 7 - Bush Hands Tight Budget To an Unhelpful Congress |
| February 7 - Difficulty in Distinguishing The Earmarks From the 'Pork' |
| February 7 - Earmarks the Booming Way to Bring Home the Bacon |
| February 7 - Fiscal 2005 Budget: A Thin Spread |
| February 7 - Fiscal 2005 Budget: Agriculture |
| February 7 - Fiscal 2005 Budget: Branches of Government |
| February 7 - Fiscal 2005 Budget: Commerce |
| February 7 - Fiscal 2005 Budget: Defense |
| February 7 - Fiscal 2005 Budget: Education |
| February 7 - Fiscal 2005 Budget: Energy |
| February 7 - Fiscal 2005 Budget: Health and Human Services |
| February 7 - Fiscal 2005 Budget: Homeland Security |
| February 7 - Fiscal 2005 Budget: Housing and Urban Development |
| February 7 - Fiscal 2005 Budget: Interior |
| February 7 - Fiscal 2005 Budget: Justice |
| February 7 - Fiscal 2005 Budget: Labor |
| February 7 - Fiscal 2005 Budget: Major Independent Agencies |
| February 7 - Fiscal 2005 Budget: Other Agencies |
| February 7 - Fiscal 2005 Budget: State |
| February 7 - Fiscal 2005 Budget: Transportation |
| February 7 - Fiscal 2005 Budget: Treasury |
| February 7 - Fiscal 2005 Budget: Veterans' Affairs |
| February 7 - Highway Funding Figures Vary |
| February 7 - Purpose of the CBO |
| February 7 - The Politics of Caution |
| February 14 - Fiscal 2005's Intractable Budget Takes Halo Off Defense Funding |
| February 14 - Frist Conducts Class in Senate on Finer Points of Highway Funding |
| February 14 - GOP Offers Budget 'Principles' |
| February 14 - House GOP Hard Line on Spending Cuts Warns That 'Everything Is on the Table' |
| February 21 - Deficit Sparks Convergence, Divergence on Budget Overhaul |
| February 21 - Responding to Record Deficits |
| February 28 - A Lesson in Raptor's Story: Downsized but Not Out |
| February 28 - Does This R&D Tax Credit Stand for 'Raise the Deficit'? |
| February 28 - Greenspan's Solutions Raise Eyebrows |
| February 28 - New and Harsh Uncertainty For Big Weapons Programs |
| February 28 - The Rising Toll for Roads |
| February 28 - Tough Tests Lie Ahead for Plans To Trim Spending, Deficit |
| February 28 - Transportation Bill's Competing Interests Squeeze Congress into Interim Legislation |
| February 28 - Weapons: F-35 Joint Strike Fighter |
| February 28 - Weapons: Missile Defenses |
| February 28 - Weapons: Other Systems That May Be on the Block |
| February 28 - Weapons: V-22 Osprey Tilt-Rotor Aircraft |
| February 28 - Weapons: Virginia-Class Submarine |
| March 6 - Budget Deficit Concerns Could Define Shape of Corporate Tax Overhaul |
| March 6 - Deficit Hawks, Appropriators Set to Clash Over Spending |
| March 6 - Delayed Supplemental Attacked For Disguising Iraq War's Cost |
| March 13 - Already Bumpy Budget Process Roiled by Anti-Deficit Stands |
| March 13 - For Democrats Blasting Bush on Jobs, Outsourcing Is In |
| March 13 - Hastert Wades Into Highway Bill Impasse as White House, Young Lock Horns |
| March 13 - Opponents Vow Last-Stand Battle Over Next Base Closure Round |
| March 13 - With Permanent Repeal Unlikely, Nickles, Other Republicans Seek Compromise on 'Death Tax' |
| March 20 - House Committee Seeks Way To Work Around Hastert And Boost Highway Spending |
| March 20 - Leaders Win Just Enough Unity To Keep GOP Budget Moving |
| March 20 - Pentagon Spending Levels Preserved |
| March 20 - Post-Madrid Calls for Action Do Not Change Hard Reality Of Elusive U.S. Rail Security |
| March 20 - When It Comes to Budget Rules, Congress Can Just Waive Goodbye |
| March 27 - 'Pay as You Go' Fight Threatens Budget Resolution Conference |
| March 27 - Budget Resolution: Alternative Proposals Rejected |
| March 27 - High Cost, Plentiful Critics Fail to Clip Raptor's Wings |
| March 27 - House Panel Approves Pared-Down Bill For Highways and Transit Projects |
| April 3 - Highway Bill Conferees' Quest: A Rewrite Bush Will Buy |
| April 3 - Republican Infighting Leaves Budget in Lurch |
| April 10 - Iowa ‘Rain Forest’ Gives Grassley a Trough of Trouble |
| April 17 - Deal on Pay-as-You-Go Rules a Must for Budget Resolution |
| April 17 - Moderates Complicate GOP Leaders' Budget Plans |
| April 17 - Snowe's Support Critical to Republican Tax Cuts |
| April 24 - Moderate From Maine Expected to Play Key Role In Pay-As-You-Go Debate |
| May 1 - Democrats Hone Their Demands As Tax Cut Bills Hit the Senate |
| May 1 - Democrats Want a Full Accounting Of Bush's Supplemental Spending |
| May 1 - GOP Budget Resolution Stalemate Bad News for Party's Tax Agenda |
| May 1 - GOP Factions Split on Hill Role in Setting the Defense Agenda |
| May 1 - Long Road for Pay-as-You-Go |
| May 1 - Senate Clears 60-Day Extension Of Surface Transportation Bill, But Partisan Standoff Simmers |
| May 8 - Bush Admits Higher War Cost With Request for $25 Billion |
| May 8 - House Renews AMT Extension, Puts Long-Term Fix on Hold |
| May 8 - Still 'No Deal' On Budget Resolution |
| May 15 - Appropriations Chairman: Hill's New Hardship Post |
| May 15 - Appropriators' Job Made Harder By Lack of Budget Resolution |
| May 15 - Changes to White House Script Likely As Chambers Take Up Defense Bill |
| May 15 - Flake's Fight Against Transportation Bill Enlivens Attack From Primary Opponent |
| May 15 - Hill to Bush: Strings Attached |
| May 15 - Republicans Seek to Narrow Gap On Dealing With Tax Cut Legislation, But Progress Expected to Be Slow |
| May 22 - Budget's Demise Forces New Plans |
| May 22 - Conferees on Highway Bill Face Daunting Differences |
| May 22 - House Passage Likely End of Line For Permanent Child Tax Credit, Latest of Four GOP Tax Cuts |
| May 22 - Odds Worsen for GOP Budget as Moderates Rebuff Latest Try |
| May 29 - April Receipts Extend Debt Deadline |
| May 29 - Unresolved Budget Resolution, Tight Calendar Threaten to Push Most Spending Bills Into Omnibus |
| June 5 - Democrats Watch GOP Squirm Under Tight Cap |
| June 12 - 'Reaganomics' Lives On |
| June 12 - Nickles, Hoping to Go Out on High Note, Seeks Budget Deal With GOP Moderates |
| June 19 - Highway Bill Puts Two Oklahoma Friends, Like-Minded Senators, on Opposite Sides |
| June 19 - House's Own Funding Bill Seeks to 'Set the Example' With Freeze on Spending |
| June 19 - Sans Budget Resolution, Senate GOP Struggles to Control Appropriations |
| June 26 - DeLay, Inhofe In Spat Over Highway Bill |
| June 26 - House Kills Multiple Amendments, Stops Try at 'Pay-as-You-Go' Revival |
| June 26 - Senate Democrats Parry GOP On Debt Limit Maneuver |
| July 10 - Amid Highway Fracas, an Unbowed Young Works to Bring Spending Bill to Fruition |
| July 10 - Speedy Debate on Homeland Funds Expected in Senate, but Other Bills Being Shunted to Autumn Agenda |
| July 17 - GOP Appropriations Strategy Uncertain as August Recess Looms |
| July 17 - House Appropriators Show Past Is Not Prologue |
| July 17 - Republicans Hope to Set Precedent as Support for Tax Cut Bill Grows |
| July 24 - Cap-Busting Housing Provision in Military Construction Bill Ignites Budget Battle in House |
| July 24 - GOP Leaders Feel Home-State Pinch of Fiscal 2005 Budget Limits |
| July 31 - Another Dip for Budgetary Roller Coaster |
| July 31 - Homeland Security: Money for Non-Aviation Transit Systems |
| September 4 - The Nation's Debt: Creative Accounting |
| September 4 - Waiting Game on Appropriations Bills Has Risks for Democrats and Republicans |
| September 11 - Deficit Kept in Election Play With Parties' Different Spin On Latest CBO Projections |
| September 11 - For-Profit Schools' New Image Wins Praise -- and Public Funds |
| September 11 - Highway Bill Hits Bumpy Road As Inhofe Sidelines Democrats; Funding Agreement Still Elusive |
| September 25 - Next Presidency: 'An Extremely Difficult Term' |
| September 25 - Next Presidency: A Future of Shortfalls |
| September 25 - Resurrected GOP Push for Balanced-Budget Law Quickly Hits Resistance |
| October 2 - Quandary Over Base Closings Hampers Defense Bill Conference |
| October 2 - White House Shifts Funds For SCHIP |
| October 9 - For House, Fiscal Defibrillators |
| October 16 - Election Day Outcome Will Determine Lawmakers' Strategy for Debt-Limit Increase |
| October 16 - House vs. Senate Intelligence Overhaul Plans |
| October 23 - Tax Code Overhaul May Simmer On GOP Back Burner in 109th |
| November 6 - Senate Budget in the 109th Congress |
| November 13 - Finale for Debt Limit Drama |
| November 13 - Giving and Taking Away |
| November 13 - GOP Weighs Politically Iffy Plan: Cut Medicare Provider Payments |
| November 13 - Line-Item Veto Not on Agenda Despite Talk by President |
| November 20 - Debt Limit Increase Clears; Democrats Use Deadline Vote To Attack GOP Fiscal Policy |
| November 20 - Intelligence Authorization: 'Nice, but Not Must-Pass' |
| November 27 - Editor's Notebook: On & Off the Bus |
| November 27 - Troop Safety at Heart of Debate Over Stalled Intelligence Bill |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Corporate Tax Overhaul |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Debt Limit Increase |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Fiscal 2005 Budget Resolution |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Intelligence Reorganization |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Middle Class Tax Break Extensions |
| December 4 - 2004 Legislative Summary: Overview and Fiscal 2005 Omnibus |
| December 4 - Bush Banks on His Influence To Move Intelligence Rewrite |
| December 4 - The Tentative Intelligence Overhaul Deal |
| December 11 - Recommended, and Actual, Intelligence Reorganization |
